Broncos coach John Fox signed a three-year contract extension with the team Thursday night, team sources confirmed Friday. The new contract is worth $5 million to $6 million per year. The Broncos were concerned about the news leaking because they didn't want to steal the spotlight from the Rockies' home opener Friday at Coors Field. After guiding the AFC champion Broncos ...

Ah yes, the proverbial nail in the coffin. The Manning era will end with Fox and no Super Bowl victories. I held out hope that Elway had a clue, but he's proven otherwise. Sit back and enjoy the "shock" and the "knee" and the " I didn't expect the stadium to be so noisy" and all the other rookie type coach reactions. This should be a good show. Congrats to Fox for convincing Denver that he is a good coach (hard to fail when you have PFM). But as soon as Peyton is done, this team is back to 8-8 and will again illustrate Fox's historical coaching average.

As sickened as I was by our performance, and coaching preparation, in the Super Bowl...it's hard to deny Fox has been pretty successful. And not just in the game-day coaching, either. Look at the player development with guys like Julius Thomas and Malik Jackson.

The only "hole" is the one the Chargers, Chiefs and Raiders keep falling into since Elway and Fox have taken over.

It's time to finally complete this thing and win a title. And then see how good a coach he can be without Manning.

Wisdom wrote:Ah yes, the proverbial nail in the coffin. The Manning era will end with Fox and no Super Bowl victories. I held out hope that Elway had a clue, but he's proven otherwise. Sit back and enjoy the "shock" and the "knee" and the " I didn't expect the stadium to be so noisy" and all the other rookie type coach reactions. This should be a good show. Congrats to Fox for convincing Denver that he is a good coach (hard to fail when you have PFM). But as soon as Peyton is done, this team is back to 8-8 and will again illustrate Fox's historical coaching average.

Well I was disgusted by the lack of preparation for the Super Bowl, and kind of hoping that we promised the Head Coaching job to Gase in a year or two. Having said that, you can't argue Fox has been pretty successful, and I'm not writing him off yet.

When Peyton Manning retires "the team will be back to 8-8 again" ANYWAY, regardless of who the coach is! BREAKING NEWSFLASH: In today's NFL you're only as good as your QB.

You either have a franchise QB capable of winning a SB or you do not. The Broncos do have that QB currently (he's already won one remember?). But, only the delusional think the Broncos are going to win a championship with Brock Osweiler. The odds of that are about 1 in 138 (the number of QBs drafted #57 or later in the draft since Tom Brady who've actually been any good -- Russell Wilson and nobody else) -- and no Tony Romo, you don't count!

"It's time to finally complete this thing and win a title. And then see how good a coach he can be without Manning."

Broncos fans need to realize that simply may not happen. And if not it does not detract from the extraordinary success of the team under Fox and Peyton Manning. They were still better than any other team in the AFC and one of the top teams in the NFL.

And they will probably be that again next season. It's just extremely hard to win a championship. Just ask the 49ers, Patriots, Steelers, Colts and Bears. None of them has been back to the SB since losing their last one. And no-one has gone back to back since the Patriots in 2004-05.

Wisdom wrote:Ah yes, the proverbial nail in the coffin. The Manning era will end with Fox and no Super Bowl victories. I held out hope that Elway had a clue, but he's proven otherwise. Sit back and enjoy the "shock" and the "knee" and the " I didn't expect the stadium to be so noisy" and all the other rookie type coach reactions. This should be a good show. Congrats to Fox for convincing Denver that he is a good coach (hard to fail when you have PFM). But as soon as Peyton is done, this team is back to 8-8 and will again illustrate Fox's historical coaching average.

And how is that different than other coaches. Check out Bellichiks record without Brady, Carrolls record with out Wilson, etc.